Ages 2^-6. In the uproarious style of Never Take a Pig to Lunch (1994), Westcott's black-ink line and watercolor illustrations bring bedlam to the bedroom in Gray's cumulative story about the farmyard animals that come knocking at the door on a rainy night. Two by two, the animals come, shivering and wet, to ask to share the warm, dry feather bed of the wee fat woman and her wee fat husband. Each time, the wee fat woman lets them in with a refrain that ends, "There's room on the feather bed for all of us." Kids will love the funny scenes of the animals snuggled in bed, the goose's wing round the man's neck, the fat pink pig hogging the blanket. It gets "a little crowded" when the cow joins them, but they all snuggle down. Then the woman lets the outsider skunk in, and everyone rushes out in horror--until the rain drives them back in to shelter together. Much like a folktale, the rhyming story will make a great read-aloud, a rousing opposite to those bedtime lullabies. Hazel Rochman